JOHN MARK REED 
ROBERT ALAN REED 
IDIEIEID $ IDEIEID 
SISTEMAS Y SUMINISTROS DE OFICINA 
GUAYAQUIL 
ECUADOR CASILUA - 
Cable Y Teuegrafo 
784 
“REED" 
November 16, 1954 
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt 
Smithsonian Institution 
United States National Museum 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear doc: 
A full page article has appeared in "El Telegrafo" today 
which I am sure will interest you, so that I am sending it on via 
air mail so that you will have it before you. As you can see by 
reading it, the baroness and her companion has disappeared from 
the face of the earth, while the second companion has also disa 
appeared misteriously while going frcm one island to the other. 
While one explanation is that they went off on a yatch, 
there seams to be no real evidence of this, and it would arpear 
that Lorentz had good reasons for wishing to do away with the ba- 
roness and Philippson. The whole story is such 100$^ newspaper 
material that it almost looks doctored up. 
In any case, you will probably be able to bring the first 
really reliable report on the question, smd the whoie matter may 
bring more interest to bear on what your expedition may have to 
report on arriving in Guayaquil. 
About Paul Young, you bet your life it was known here 
because it was flashed the world over on United Press and Associated 
Press dispatches, and it maae the front page on every newspaper in 
Ecuador. Yet, curiously enough, it didn't do him much of any harm 
here in Ecuador, while in the States the income of the Mission 
dropped from the very day that this item was published. However 
they finally accepted his explaatation and not his resignation. 
The fact of the matter is that while Paul never did any- 
thing more than demonstrate tear gas, and no sale was even made, 
yet from the standpoint of the Mission they had reason to complain 
about his doing an 3 Fthing at all outside his missionary activities. 
Incidentally, no doubt Captain |lancock will think that 
Paul got that invitation for him, because while he was in Quito 
last time he went with I^Ir. Clarke, the Manager of our Quito of- 
fice, to the Minister of Education, amd Paul himself took the 
written invitation^ and SENT IT WITH HIS OWN LETTER, to Hancock. 
